Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-10-01

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are noticeable q few nights in the year.
The Others last all summer. THo or
three kinds OF singing esdhy
cone and go In q season. Bedbugs
obey the same lawe here a4 elsewhefe.
The great insect pest of the state IS coch
1paohts These hateful and ineradicahle
have tse good traits sf er
eli. They keep out at eight BY day, aud
they never attack the human skin.
The ummer fruits we're not very
abundant. The Strawberries which
yielded magniieently all through jar
uary, February, March. April and May,
began to diminish In june aud ceased
to yield entirely III July. Then bananss
came in, There are hosts of hue bar
ana beds in town, and their fruit Is OF
superb Favor, though the punches arc
not long or heavy. A man over on In
dian river has ten acres in n field, and
once in two weeks ne comes here with q
car load OF good lunches.
Gnavas Of three kinds are ripe and
plenty. Many new comers cannot EN-.
dnre a guaya at first, but all experienced
residents class them AZ among the
choicest fruits. / set out about twenty
five young trees Of the best guavas lost
week; also q few hundred t rawberry |
plants, which Will begin bearing about
the Christmas holidays. if successful as
other peoples are. The same plants
keep full OF blossoms and ripening fruit
till midsummer. [ have seen beds Of
large size that yielded at the rate of
5000 quarts per acre this season. and the
January crop has brought from $l.00 TO
$3.50 per quart in northern cities. Even
in March they bring q splendid profit.
For a month or more we have used green
lemons, and there is one kind of orange,
the "sweet Seville" that ia already excel.
lent, though perfectly green outside. In
various gardens l have seen large tea
bushes bearing flowers and large pods of
seeds with the foliage in perfection. The
most luscious large yellow fruit of all is
the Japan %persimmon. 1t is budded on
thesoommon Wild stocks, and in two to
four years it bears q heavy load, They
are of various sorts and shapes, usually
as large as q moderately large apple. One
branch was brought in as large as o pencil
where cut off and holding twelve great
yellow fruits in Iess then q foot OF lite
length.
In n garden I saw several fine date
palms, one of which bore a cluster OF
dates-a rare sight here. Also a tree re-
sembling an orange tree, laden with the
large pink heshed shaddock. like q great
green orange six inches through, They
are delicious, to those whoshave learned
to enjoy them. The lime trees got killed
down by the @freezs, yet the market is
we'll supplied with Tahiti lines as large
as big plums. from plsess further south.
For lemonade they beat lemons out of
all competition by their superior flavor.
Apples from Tennessee. and Georgia
are on sale every where, but present no
attraction to me. People buy and eat
them largely without caring that they
are perforated by small boring worms
unlike those that prevail at the north.
This reminds me that none of the fruits
here have such insect pests inside. Who
ever saw q wormy banana, orange, lime,
lemon, guava or strawberry? The deli
cious peaches that ripen here in May are
free from worms also, but those I used
to steal when a soldier in Tennessee
were lively with them.
/ have Seen %pineapples ripen here in
the greatest perfection; and I agree with
Brother Bunker that no one can knoy
the real value aud perfection OF the pine.
apple from eating those that were
picked green and shipped north to wilt
and ripen. The melons OF this country
are as GOOD as the world can produce
and like most ether fruits here, they are
in market as many months as they are
weeks in your short nor: bern seasons.
We have just closed q red hot election
campaign on the local option question.
The streets for weeks have been the
Scene OF perpetual discussion whether
prohibition or free Iianer should be the
law after October first Every one
seemed actively at work to convert
voters to his wi side. The whisky
men were very active, and bribed q host
OF blacks to spread their placards, ru-
mors and lies. They sought in their des.
peration to buy up all the poor trif1inR
and corrupt negroes. They only sue
ceeded in part. The scene around court
house square was most exciting and
strange on election day. All was noise
dispute. uproar and laughter, whites and
blacks by hundreds, with either a white
ribbon printed "dry" or q blue one
marked "wet" pinned on their coat. A
long line of voters, 80 to 40 in number
slowly worked their way to the voting
window, beset on both sides by active
~elsctioneers OF both colors. Above thei,
heads, banners and evergreen notices
hung from the open windows, in which
were q large band of sweet voiced chll-
dren singing temperance songs.
Near by was q large temporary dining
booth, crowded by good temperance
women, supplied with enough roast bsef,
bread, coffee and delicacies to feed Az
army. The black voters ate at one side
and the whites at the other. .sHave you
voted the dry ticket?" was asked oil each